From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [10.30.226.201]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6D7ED17F5 for ; Thu, 12 Oct 2023 14:46:18 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b="Q6nL+4M+" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 1AB73C433C7; Thu, 12 Oct 2023 14:46:14 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=k20201202; t=1697121978; bh=O2x78rOBWTFesFHLGuuhfU/0q39fTXA8lDOZUhM2/mQ=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:References:Date:In-Reply-To:From; b=Q6nL+4M+7KTg9VgVgqbBhoqWdSfrxRveBtZLy+eErYUxSVUgM4+fg/IUKw9vZ5bnf IQX9ZsfwvYb3k0iixw4+CYudyE3JD/hMcrvlLuyw2+uRL6DNAR6wkCitcOXK54ozu1 6n+ui8/e/T2z/5wVJHgRau597vQcWIH/Nfb+CBmf6j00OBUCfp1quLgMh7923EKNg1 WhkQ+daxcTe77B8ZZFqhn7A9HkLJNCRsBbz03mwnnBYoRLDWQDquCZY7DtMLFZhGjK UC2fZf4SjBkwOaYj0XTjKzCgQ5SwoTIYraTnG+EtwC3ZbngUfn1fO2k9c97IysCcHn j4nDsCl3g+mSQ== From: Kalle Valo To: "Arnd Bergmann" Cc: "Jakub Kicinski" , "Greg Kroah-Hartman" , "Arnd Bergmann" , "Nicolas Ferre" , "Alexandre Belloni" , "Claudiu Beznea" , "Pavel Machek" , "David S . Miller" , "Larry Finger" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-staging@lists.linux.dev Subject: Re: [PATCH] [RFC] wireless: move obsolete drivers to staging References: <20231010155444.858483-1-arnd@kernel.org> <2023101051-unmasked-cleaver-79b3@gregkh> <87y1g94szz.fsf@kernel.org> <2023101139-pyromania-game-2237@gregkh> <87r0m1fwg9.fsf@kernel.org> <20231011080955.1beeb010@kernel.org> <87sf6g2hc8.fsf@kernel.org> <63e57ef8-c9f2-489a-8df8-51dcffd437c6@app.fastmail.com> Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2023 17:48:47 +0300 In-Reply-To: <63e57ef8-c9f2-489a-8df8-51dcffd437c6@app.fastmail.com> (Arnd Bergmann's message of "Thu, 12 Oct 2023 16:36:26 +0200") Message-ID: <87fs2fgals.fsf@kernel.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.2 (gnu/linux) Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-staging@lists.linux.dev List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain "Arnd Bergmann" writes: > On Thu, Oct 12, 2023, at 13:47, Kalle Valo wrote: >> >> Is anyone willing to submit patches? Use wireless-next as the baseline >> for patches and one driver per commit, please. That way it's easy to >> revert later, if needed (hopefully not). > > I can do it, I've already done most of the work for moving the > drivers, so I just need to split up my existing patch and leave out > the bits that get added to drivers/staging. Awesome, thank you! > I'll also send Greg a patch to remove rtl8192u now that we know > that this has been broken for 7 years. Similarly, I'd include > another patch to remove PCMCIA support for libertas, as that > would otherwise be the only remaining 16-bit PCMCIA wlan card, > and I could find no indication of this one ever being popular, > unlike the USB/SDIO/SPI variants of the same device or the > other PCMCIA drivers. > > This would leave only a handful of wext implementations in the > tree: ipw2x00, ps3-gelic-wireless, staging/rtl8712, staging/rtl8192e > and staging/ks7010. Since ipw2x00 is apparently still supported > in theory and was rather popular on Pentium-M based systems 20 > years ago, this may still need to be converted to cfg80211 > before you can remove support for wext style drivers altogether. > ps3-gelic-wireless and rtl8712 are also still maintained but have > a much smaller user base I assume. Actually I would prefer to remove ipw2x00 and ps3-gelic-wireless as well. I have not seen any evidence that there would be users for those drivers. If we find out that there really are users I can easily add the drivers back. The faster we get rid of wext the better, it really needs to go away. -- https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-wireless/list/ https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/documentation/submittingpatches